Charlie Chan in Panama Page #2

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You bet.

Where's the boss Fu Yuen?

Fu Yuen speaks and offers welcome.

How can I best serve

most honorable patron?

Uh, gentleman would like

panama hat. Please.

Try this one for size.

Oh, excuse, please.

This one mine.

Gentleman seek headgear

for sports activity, for formal wear?

Or perhaps businessman special.

I hear you're a man of many friends.

Thousand friends too few.

Do you have enemies?

One enemy one too many.

I guess we understand

each other, Mr. Chan.

- Rlease, name is Fu Yuen

- Sorry

Uh, try this one, please.

Good afternoon, seor.

Good afternoon, Fu Yuen.

In Panama, walls equipped

with eyes as well as ears.

You can't be too careful.

Washington has a pretty straight tip

that there may be an attempt at sabotage...

when the fleet passes through the canal

tomorrow night.

Humble self responsible for tip.

Notice large increase

in number of secret agents...

after fleet ordered back to Pacific.

Anything more definite than that?

Regret to report

nothing definite enough to act upon

Maybe I can help you.

We've learned that the person

who sabotaged the Eldridge dry dock...

who crashed the 409

- Was secret agent named Ryner.

- Right.

He's the one man we can't spot.

It's uncanny.

He's brilliant,

and yet he's a cold-blooded killer.

We think he's here.

Ryner in Panama?

Hope you bring some slight clue

to his identity.

Yes.

You see

[Coughs]

[Gasping]

Call doctor!

Wait.

Too late for doctor.

Call police.

: Muertol i: Rolical i: Rolical

[Continues Shouting In Spanish]

[Man #2 Shouting In Spanish]

[Men Shouting In Spanish]

[Shouting Continues]

Is he dead?

While purchasing hat,

deceased light cigarette.

He take one puff and fall to floor.

- What you take from the corpse?

- Merely seek identification.

Fu Yuenl Fu Yuenl

What has happened?

- Monsieur Godley

- You know this man?

Why, yes. I saw him on the airplane,

but I can't understand.

He was well and strong

when he left the seaplane landing.

S? Huh?

Hmm. Diplomatic passport.

He's an American official.

You a spy maybe. You kill him!

You come with me!

- One moment.

- Stop!

My hat, please.

S Vamos

[Spanish]

[Spanish]

[Men Chattering In English, Spanish]

I'll have another shilling on that!

There we are!

[Chattering]

[Chattering, Shouting Continue]

- Hey! What's going on?

- Pop!

Am I glad to see you.

How'd you know it was me?

Frequent spankings have made

favorite son's anatomy most familiar.

Blimey, don't leave the game now.

You've got all my money.

- I'll be back. Just a minute.

- [All Chattering]

Last information,

offspring working as steward on boat...

during college vacation.

- Where is boat now?

- Well, gee, I guess it's sailed for New York.

Explain presence here.

Well, when my boat docked in Balboa

this morning, I set out to find you.

And on the way, I stopped along

the waterfront to take some pictures.

A few art studiesyou know,

machinery, locks and battleships.

I was arrested as a spy.

Man without relatives

is man without troubles.

Say, Pop, what are you

doing in jail?

Cannot talk now. Later.

- You do not know who or what parent is.

- Oh, I catch on.

Captain Lewis,

I show you the spy I catch.

Lieutenant, your vigilance and cooperation

are greatly appreciated.

[Dice Rlayers Chattering]

I'll take this man

to the governor at once.

You, come with me.

Hey! What about me?

Oh, maybe tomorrow

we shoot you, I think.

[Man]

Come on.

Ryner here in Panama?

Any clue to his identity?

Unfortunately, Mr. Godley join ancestors

when about to reveal same.

- That's bad.

- [Knocking]

Come in.

Governor, I've completed

the autopsy on Godley.

- Let's have it, Doctor.

- Concentrate of poison in both lungs.

Please, poison called "boanide"?

Yes. How'd you know?

Most deadly when inhaled

with smoke from cigarette.

You were right then, Charlie.

- Did you analyze the cigarettes in the package?

- They all contained boanide.

Why, the poor devil

didn't have a chance.

All right, Doctor. Thank you.

- What do you make of it, Charlie?

- Too soon to make much.

But unusual method

of causing death...

is Ryner's signature to crime.

Godley and Ryner

play "cat and mouse" game.

- And mouse strike first.

- He mustn't strike again.

With the fleet scheduled to go through the canal

in the next 18 hours, we've got to work fast.

Look here, Charlie.

Here's our fleet

concentrated off Cristobal at the Atlantic gate.

To reach battle stations

in the Pacific...

the fleet's full war complement

must pass through the Gatn Locks...

the Galliard Cut...

the Pedro Miguel

and the Miraflores Locks

any one of them

a possible point of danger.

If the lock does not function,

battleship caught like fish in trap.

A lot of fish, Mr. Chan.

The canal is practically invulnerable

against naval or aerial attack.

But we're at the mercy of Ryner

and his kind till they're run to earth.

We've got to stop him.

The full resources of Military Intelligence

are at your disposal, Charlie.

Am deeply grateful,

but think it wiser at present...

to remain humble purveyor of hats

Fu Yuen.

Say, gee, Pop,

this is just like old times.

Ah. But getting offspring

out of jail must not become habit.

No I mean you and I working together

on a case is just like old times

Was not aware

of current collaboration.

Gee, now that I'm here,

I can be a great help to you.

You just wait, Pop.

You'll be proud of me yet.

Can hasten pride by removing

odor of jail.

Scrub.

What have you got there, Rop?

Floor plan of airplane

which bring Mr. Godley to Panama City.

Same supplied by Captain Lewis who has

questioned stewardess and all passengers.

- You mean the murderer might

have been on the plane?

- Yes.

How do you figure that?

Before boarding plane,

Mr. Godley and schoolteacher...

smoke cigarettes from Mr. Godley's pack.

Neither suffer ill effects.

So someone substitute poison cigarettes

after boarding plane.

How'd they do it?

Weren't they in Godley's pocket?

Cigarettes in pocket

Mr. Godley's topcoat...

which stewardess place on rear seat.

Easily accessible to all passengers.

- Then one of them is Ryner.

- Quite possible.

But hiding behind what name?

- Finch? Halide?

- Achmed Halide?

Say, he sells cigarettes

right across the street from you.

And Godley was killed

by a poison cigarette.

Have not overlooked fact.

- Who's Miss Finch?

- Chicago schoolteacher.

- Young?

- Young maiden of 50 summers or more.

Oh

"Richard Cabot"? Who's he?

- Government engineer.

- Oh, he's out then.

Say, here's a foreign name

"Kathi Lenesch"

Who's she?

Young lady who left job

as stewardess on boat...

to sing in cabaret

operated by Seor Manolo.

Left the boat, huh?

Dad, that sounds suspicious.

I think I'll go to the cabaret

and look that girl over tonight.

Parent has reserved task for self.

Well, isn't there anybody

I can investigate?

Who's Dr. Rudolph Grosser?

Also neighbor.

Viennese scientist.

- Has rooms over Halide's tobacco shop.

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